Effects of contemplative dyads on engagement and perceived social connectedness over 9 months of mental training: A randomized clinical trial
A new approach to creating social connection.
Heart-Centered Listening Makes Us More Compassionate than Mindfulness Alone
Heart-Centered Listening Makes Us More Compassionate than Mindfulness Alone
The effects of stress and affiliation on social decision-making: Investigating the tend-and-befriend pattern
Stress leads to decreased trust
Self-compassion: An alternative conceptualization of a healthy attitude toward oneself
Self-compassion is an emotionally positive self-attitude that protects against the negative consequences of self-judgment, isolation, and rumination
An examination of self-compassion in relation to positive psychological functioning and personality traits
Self-compassion boosts happiness, optimism, wisdom, personal initiative, curiosity and exploration, agreeableness, extroversion, and conscientiousness
Caring Cooperators and Powerful Punishers: Differential Effects of Induced Care and Power Motivation on Different Types of Economic Decision Making
Economic decision making is context-sensitive and motive-based. Care and power motivation have a dissociable fingerprint in shaping either cooperative or punishment behaviors.
Creating a Compassionate World: Addressing the Conflicts Between Sharing and Caring Versus Controlling and Holding Evolved Strategies
How compassion can move us from a control and hold society to a care and share society
Self-Compassion: Theory, Method, Research, and Intervention
Self-compassion is a productive way of approaching distressing thoughts and emotions that engenders mental and physical well-being
Healing Collective Trauma
The consequences of trauma seep across communities, regions, lands, and nations.
Deep dreaming – and listening
To survive turbulent times we need to listen more
A living systems approach to achieving global equity for a healthy planet
We will only overcome the existential crises we face with big and transformative change
Limits to consumption
We need to fundamentally reimagine and learn anew what it means to be human
Epidemiology of compassion: A literature review
The human experience of compassion is heterogeneous with respect to time, place, and person.